http://mmqb.si.com/2014/08/12/aaron-rodgers-packers-hot-yoga-mailbag/ Performer of the Tour. I watched the Bucs for two-and-a-half hours on a recent toasty afternoon, and the best player on the field the day I saw them was Josh McCown. That’s going to elicit some chuckles from the crowd, because it’s not popular to think someone who has started one season in the NFL—2004, for Arizona—could succeed for a team in something other than a keep-the-seat-warm capacity. Maybe he can’t. I suppose history would say it’s an extreme long shot. All I know is that in the practice I saw, McCown dropped a perfect 42-yard bomb into the hands of Mike Evans deep downfield, threw four or five other perfectos to the sidelines on a rope, and looked every bit the part of a starting NFL passer. I think it’s fashionable to say a guy who started five games for the Bears and played in eight more last year was just a stopgap. Maybe he was. But completing 67 percent of his throws in 224 attempts, with 13 touchdowns and one pick … is that a fluke? Is that not worthy of thinking that a player has grown and matured and taken coaching and learned from smart offensive minds and now might be able to be a winner in the NFL? Or should we think what Josh McCown was at 24 is what he is at 35, and what he forever will be? All I know is what I saw: McCown was the best player on the field, confident and hard-throwing, for one day, and I want to see more. I’m intrigued by what the Bucs will be this season if the line protects McCown.
